Any person of sound mind knows that if one looks up chaos in the dictionary, one would find the definition “the confused unorganized state existing when people, who already have two dogs, get another.”
Yes, yes we did.
But it’s not what you’re thinking.
Unless you’re thinking that we got a third dog. Then it’s exactly what you’re thinking.
“I promise, mom, I’ll clean my room and do my homework and scrub the bathrooms and eat all my vegetables and eat all your vegetables–if you’ll just let me keep him.”
Okay, nobody said that–since no amount of begging, pleading, or eating of vegetables would have convinced me to keep the dog.
Mostly because he wasn’t ours to keep. We were just puppy sitting Moseley (a seven month old yellow lab) for the weekend.
We were puppy sitting Moseley because he is a special dog. Not special because he has a sweet spirit (although he does), but special because he is important. When his raisers go out of town, he has to be watched by special people (who have sweet spirits) rather than left in the backyard or kennel.
Moseley is a future Guide Dog for the Blind (GDB).
And my daughter is hoping to raise a GDB puppy of her own. One of the requirements for getting your own GDB puppy to raise is to puppy sit other GDB puppies. So, while Moseley’s raisers were out of town, we were puppy sitting him.
Which, in case you haven’t been doing the math, meant we had three dogs, one cat, five kids, two adults and a whole lot of chaos.
But everywhere we took Moseley (the grocery store, the mall, three hours of church), he was well-behaved and accident free. Good thing, too, since he drew a lot of attention wherever we went.
Overall, I’m putting the experience in the win column. My daughter learned first-hand the responsibility of taking care of a Guide Dog puppy. (You can read more about that here.) I learned that three dogs might sound like only one more than two, but, when you figure in the chaos and the square footage of our house, it’s more like 30.
The jury is still out on whether or not we will get a GDB puppy of our own. For now, we’ll just keep puppy sitting.
So bring on the chaos, I say. Calm is overrated, anyway.
Moseley was the best. I miss him! I really want to train Guide Dogs for the Blind!!!
Moseley is a great dog. And, he’s adorable. I hope he makes it as a Guide Dog.
Me too but who knows with all that sneezing he does!
If I were to adopt, a lab is what I would like… once my feral cat dies that is.
Ha! It’s so good to be here, reading your posts. A third dog sounds an awful lot like a third child. I swear I have 30 daughters under the age of two.